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Natural Selection - Revisiting its Explanatory Role in Evolutionary Biology (Hardcover, 1st ed. 2021)
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Natural Selection - Revisiting its Explanatory Role in Evolutionary Biology (Hardcover, 1st ed. 2021)
Series: Evolutionary Biology - New Perspectives on Its Development, 3
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This book contests the general view that natural selection
constitutes the explanatory core of evolutionary biology. It
invites the reader to consider an alternative view which favors a
more complete and multidimensional interpretation. It is common to
present the 1930-1960 period as characterized by the rise of the
Modern Synthesis, an event structured around two main explanatory
commitments: (1) Gradual evolution is explained by small genetic
changes (variations) oriented by natural selection, a process
leading to adaptation; (2) Evolutionary trends and speciational
events are macroevolutionary phenomena that can be accounted for
solely in terms of the extension of processes and mechanisms
occurring at the previous microevolutionary level. On this view,
natural selection holds a central explanatory role in evolutionary
theory - one that presumably reaches back to Charles Darwin's
Origin of Species - a view also accompanied by the belief that the
field of evolutionary biology is organized around a profound
divide: theories relying on strong selective factors and those
appealing only to weak ones. If one reads the new analyses
presented in this volume by biologists, historians and
philosophers, this divide seems to be collapsing at a rapid pace,
opening an era dedicated to the search for a new paradigm for the
development of evolutionary biology. Contrary to popular belief,
scholars' position on natural selection is not in itself a
significant discriminatory factor between most evolutionists. In
fact, the intellectual space is quite limited, if not non-existent,
between, on the one hand, "Darwinists", who play down the central
role of natural selection in evolutionary explanations, and, on the
other hand, "non-Darwinists", who use it in a list of other
evolutionary mechanisms. The "mechanism-centered" approach to
evolutionary biology is too incomplete to fully make sense of its
development. In this book the labels created under the traditional
historiography - "Darwinian Revolution", "Eclipse of Darwinism",
"Modern Synthesis", "Post-Synthetic Developments" - are thus
re-evaluated. This book will not only appeal to researchers working
in evolutionary biology, but also to historians and philosophers."
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